Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

For students of Shakespearean studies or Renaissance literature, this introductory text features current trends...  Read More >>

"Believed to have been written in 1599, William Shakespeare's ""Henry V"" forms the final installment of a tetralogy...  Read More >>

"Believed to have been written in 1591, William Shakespeare's ""Richard III"" is one of the bards first plays, the...  Read More >>

Explore the history of Shakespeare's Globe, which is now one of London's most-visited tourist attractions.  Read More >>

Presents a play that is part of the Oxford School Shakespeare . This text includes photographs of stage productions...  Read More >>

The text of ""Macbeth"" is reproduced and, in addition, five sections of primary documents and illustrations are...  Read More >>

Hamlet, Shakespeare’s most famous play, is now available in an all-new, illustrated Norton Critical Edition.  Read More >>

Henry VI, Part 1 (often written as 1 Henry VI), is a history play by William Shakespeare, and possibly Thomas Nashe,...  Read More >>

This text of ""Julius Caesar"" is accompanied by editorial introductions, notes and questions, aiming to give GCSE...  Read More >>

A quite wonderful ideaSo blindingly obvious, I can't understand why nobody had thought of it before. I will certainly...  Read More >>

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume....  Read More >>

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A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and by her best friend. Unwittingly,...  Read More >>

Reproduces the First Folio of the plays of William Shakespeare (1623) letter for letter, dot for dot, but does so...  Read More >>

Die Reihe Fragmenta Comica wird die vollständige Kommentierung der Fragmente der griechischen Komödie bieten.Ziel...  Read More >>

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This book discusses Irish Passion plays (plays that rewrite or parody the story of the Passion of Christ) in modern...  Read More >>

Over the past three decades, no critical movement has been more prominent in Shakespeare Studies than new historicism....  Read More >>

This book seeks to invert Ben Jonson’s claim that Shakespeare had ‘small Latin and less Greek’ and to prove that,...  Read More >>

This volume investigates the early modern understanding of twinship, discussing twins appearing in anatomy tracts,...  Read More >>

What can the Globe Theatre tell us about performing Shakespeare? Unearthing Shakespeare is the first book to consider...  Read More >>

Madame Bovary es una novela escrita por Gustave Flaubert. Se publico por entregas en La Revue de Paris desde el...  Read More >>

Locates in Aristophanes' comedies a complex comic disposition appropriate to the fundamental challenge of ordinary...  Read More >>

What can the Globe Theatre tell us about performing Shakespeare? Unearthing Shakespeare is the first book to consider...  Read More >>